Childhood & Sentimental memories

noonesperfect

anguk wrote: »

I remember nylon nighties and nylon quilted dressing gowns. I also had an orange nylon eiderdown and matching nylon sheets from Brentford Nylon, my brother had blue. The static was amazing, you could hear it crackle and in the dark see a flash of light! :eek:

Ooooh this reminded me of going to stay at my Granny's house. She would give up her bed to my Mum and I would be put in a zbed made up with green bri-nylon sheets. So scratchy, yeuch!! Also the smell of paraffin in the loo - it was so cold in there that she had to light a paraffin lamp to stop the pipes from freezing. Well the truth is that a soon as you moved away from the fire you were cold!
It was the only time I got pop (limeade and cherryade) Mum wouldn't buy it (which I thank her for now) and Granny made the best (potato) scallops you ever tasted!! She died when I was eleven and Mum is with her....

noonesperfect

SPARKY16 wrote: »

I remember rosehip syrup and Farley's rusks?
I still buy Farleys rusks now they are not very high in calories so fit in great with my diet lol they take a lot longer to eat than a biscuit

I remember rosehip syrup. If us kids had an upset tummy mum would mix some arrowroot with warm water and rosehip syrup to make us better! As far as I can remember it worked. Not sure if she gave us a spoonful every day in winter to ward off colds, but we did get a spoonful of Virol in winter, which I adored.....no wonder I have such a sweet tooth! And "Welfare" orange which all small children were entitled to in the '60's.

rosieben

passion8 wrote: »

... Then having to go with our Mam to collect tins of dried milk from the clinic; I think it was called National Health milk (??) and some type of orange juice and cod liver oil. Yukk
...
And rosieben, I met Billy Fury

Yes I was a National Dried Milk baby too - those tall blue and white tins were still around in the 70's - my mum used them for storing candles and all sorts of things and my dad used them for storing nails etc in his shed. Wish I had a few of them now, they'd be great for food storage!

:happyhear Billy Fury ........ sigh ......:heartpuls

rosieben

Does anyone else remember being given 'ellenblough' tea (local pronunciation)? It was elderflower blossoms steeped in boiling water and strained. Mother used to make this for winter and if we dared so much as sniffle, she made us drink a warm cupful! It really was the most disgusting taste ever.

But when I complained about this my mother (born 1917) reckoned the worst thing she ever tasted was rue. She had problems with her eyes when she was young and her mother gave her rue tea to drink - I've only smelt the herb and it is foul!!

passion8

balmaiden - I was beginning to wonder whether it was a local thing, but it's as you've said - tap 8 times, pause, tap, pause lol, and all for tuppence

And Spendless too? You were rich indeed having a phone to lock But how funny is that? Having a lock on the phone! rofl. As for infant school, I clearly remember coming home at playtime thinking it was hometime ..... only to be carted back lol. It wasn't an infrequent thing either; both my brother and sister did it at least once!

stefejb - that rings a bell too (excuse the pun lol). It seems we were a bunch of juvenile fraudsters

passion8

rosieben wrote: »

Yes I was a National Dried Milk baby too - those tall blue and white tins were still around in the 70's - my mum used them for storing candles and all sorts of things and my dad used them for storing nails etc in his shed. Wish I had a few of them now, they'd be great for food storage!

:happyhear Billy Fury ........ sigh ......:heartpuls

My Dad used to puncture two holes in the bottom of the tins, thread string through them, and we used them as mini stilts

Iguana

passion8 wrote: »

My Dad used to puncture two holes in the bottom of the tins, thread string through them, and we used them as mini stilts

You could always make tin cans into telephones with string!!!!!!!

Iguana

rosieben wrote: »

Yes I was a National Dried Milk baby too - those tall blue and white tins were still around in the 70's - my mum used them for storing candles and all sorts of things and my dad used them for storing nails etc in his shed. Wish I had a few of them now, they'd be great for food storage!

:happyhear Billy Fury ........ sigh ......:heartpuls

I remember the tins but not the milk!!!!

Iguana

noonesperfect wrote: »

I remember rosehip syrup. If us kids had an upset tummy mum would mix some arrowroot with warm water and rosehip syrup to make us better! As far as I can remember it worked. Not sure if she gave us a spoonful every day in winter to ward off colds, but we did get a spoonful of Virol in winter, which I adored.....no wonder I have such a sweet tooth! And "Welfare" orange which all small children were entitled to in the '60's.

Do you remember bicarb in water to cure indigestion?

noonesperfect

Iguana wrote: »

Do you remember bicarb in water to cure indigestion?

Not as a child but I know a good many people who use it these days!!